| T | RUSTEES' ANNUAL REPORT 2020/21 |
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| Charity Name | Poole-Wau Partnership Charitable Trust |
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| Registered | Charity No. | 1147425 | ||||||||
| Principal Address | St Dunstan's Church Office |
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| Poole Road, Upton, Poole. Dorset BH165JA | ||||||||||
| Names ofCharity | Chairman: Jeffrey Neagle |
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| Trustees | Secretary: Rev Penny Draper |
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| Rev Christopher Strain |
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| Richard Tazewell | ||||||||||
| Name and address of | Prof. Richard Roberts, MBE | |||||||||
| Independent | Examiner | 25 Wellington Road |
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| Poole | ||||||||||
| Dorset | ||||||||||
| BH149LF | ||||||||||
| Type ofGoverning | Trust Deed (adopted 6'" October 2011) | |||||||||
| Document | Objects amended by Trust Deed (adopted 11May |
2020) | ||||||||
| How the charity is | Trust (see above). | |||||||||
| constituted | ||||||||||
| Charity Trustee selection | Appointed, by the existing trustees, from Churches |
within | the Church | of | ||||||
| methods | England Deanery ofPoole and North Bournemouth, |
unless | specialist | skills | ||||||
| are required | ||||||||||
| The objects (as from 11 |
ofthe charity Ilay 2020)— |
The Charity supports the Episcopal Church ofSouth Sudan (ECSS), Diocese ofWau, in the Republic of South Sudan. The objects ofthe Charity |
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| as set.out in | its governing | ("the Objects"), in respect ofthe Diocese ofWau, are: | ||||||||
| document | 1. The advancement of religion |
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| a. through the development ofpartner |
relationships between |
the | ||||||||
| Deanery ofPoole and North Boumemouth | in | the Diocese | of | |||||||
| Salisbury in the Church of England |
and the | Church | in Wau as | |||||||
| defined below. |
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| b. enabling visits between the UK and |
Wau | |||||||||
| c. helping the church in Wau to build, |
extent and maintain | |||||||||
| premises, to pay staff, to acquire or |
maintain | equipment | and | |||||||
| to maintain a technological presence and |
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| d. financial support fortheological training |
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| 2. The advancement ofeducation through the purchase |
ofbooks, school | |||||||||
| materials and other equipment, the construction and |
maintenance | of | ||||||||
| educational establishments and through the training, |
support | and | ||||||||
| funding ofteachers and students. |
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| 3. The relief ofpoverty through: | ||||||||||
| a. financial assistance for working and |
retired | clergy and | lay | |||||||
| members ofthe Church in Wau; and |
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| b. the provision ofhumanitarian and development aid |
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| 4. The advancement ofhuman rights and promotion of |
racial harmony | by | ||||||||
| encouraging inter-factional understanding and |
dialogue. | |||||||||
| 5. The advancement ofhealth through the provision ofmedical |
resources | |||||||||
| and through funding and facilitating the training ofmedical |
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| professionals. | ||||||||||
| The principal area ofbenefit is the Internal Province ofNorthern |
Bahr el | |||||||||
| Gazal ofthe E isco al Church ofSouth Sudan which contains the Diocese |
| ofWau and whose centre is the town ofWau in the Republic ofSouth | |||
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| Sudan ("the Church in Wau") and the inhabitants ofthis area. The Charity |
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| may also support the inhabitants in nearby states and in the United |
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| Kingdom. For Object 5the area ofbenefit is the whole ofSouth Sudan and | |||
| its people. | |||
| Summary | ofthe main | Fundraising, funding ofprojects, making grants to the ECSSWau diocese, |
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| activities | in relation to | communication with the Wau diocese, visiting Wau (when practicable) to |
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| these objects | teach and monitor projects, and welcoming Wau clergy on visits to the UK. |
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| Summary | ofthe main | Poole-Wau Partnership has managed the effects ofCovid and continued its |
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| achievements | in relation | work in most respects despite various lock-downs and restrictions. |
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| to these | objects | Throughout the period we continued to have well attended quarterly trustee meetings either via Zoom or in person when regulations allowed. This |
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| enabled us to make prompt decisions and continue to respond to events in |
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| Wau. Our communications with Wau have been maintained with a |
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| consistent flow of information both ways. Our prayer meetings have |
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| continued duriing the period both via Zoom and in person when permitted. In |
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| fact for a time we got more involvement via Zoom as those who were not |
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| able to travel connected via the internet. |
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| During the period we raised a total F35,880which was excellent considering | |||
| the Covid restrictions. Both individual and Church giving increased. We |
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| continued to support StJohn's Theological college by providing 817000per |
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| year in two instalments . In additions we were able to give F5650to other |
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| theological education —both to support female students at StJohn's and for |
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| university and college courses for several individuals. |
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| A donation ofE2000has been made to enable prisons and chaplaincy work |
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| by the church within Wau. We follow this with interest tosee the effect of | |||
| this support on the churches work. | |||
| Our organisational income and support comes primarily from 4 churches |
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| which is disappointing considering that there are 23 churches within the |
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| Deanery. We have tried at various time to expand the level ofactive | |||
| deanery interest in PWP but without much success. |
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| Despite Covid restrictions, we decided to run our Annual Fundraising Holes |
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| Bay walk. This was spread out over a week rather than on one day with the | |||
| 21 participants walking when they chose This went very well and raised a |
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| commendable 22669. |
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| We have continued to produce an excellent quarterly newsletter which is |
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| circulated in soft copy to churches and supporters. During the year articles included a testimony from a 3"Year theology student at StJohn's and one |
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| on Archbishop Moses peace mission. During the period PWP held its 10~ |
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| anniversary. As we were unable to have a meeting to celebrate this we |
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| decided to produce and circulate a 10~Anniversary booklet. An informative |
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| booklet was produced by one ofour trustees and circulated to all the |
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| Churches within the Deanery and also to supporters both within and outside |
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| ofthe Deanery. The booklet was very well received. |
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| There were several changes in personnel and responsibilities during this |
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| year. | |||
| Mark Rathbone took over the production ofthe Newsletter from Richard |
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| Tazewell who had produced the Newsletter from its inception in 2011. |
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| Richard continues as a trustee and to advise on Communications. | |||
| We also got a new treasurer to replace Paul Nicholas who had been | |||
| treasurer since 2013. One ofAndrew's first tasks was to select and set |
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| PWP up on a new fundraising platform. 'People's Giving ' was selected as |
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| the most appropriate site for our needs and this is proving very successful. |
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| During the period ofthis report we heard the sad news that Rev Carol | |||
| Langford, afounder trustee ofthe charity, had died. |